Stormy Daniels visits a local restaurant in downtown New Orleans, Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
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Stephanie Clifford, an adult film star who performs as Stormy Daniels, has filed a lawsuit against President Trump, claiming the "hush agreement" she signed regarding the "intimate relationship" is invalid because he never signed it.
Clifford filed the complaint in Los Angeles against Trump and is asking a judge intervene and resolve the issue.
According to Clifford’s complaint, she began an "intimate relationship" with Trump in the summer of 2006 while in Lake Tahoe, and that it continued well into 2007.
"This relationship included, among other things, at least one ‘meeting’ with Mr. Trump in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel," the complaint states.
Trump has never addressed Daniels' claims of a relationship publicly, and the White House has sidestepped questions from reporters. A White House spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment on the lawsuit Tuesday, nor did a representative for the president's lawyer.
Clifford said after the release of the Access Hollywood tape in 2016, in which Trump brags about grabbing women "by the pussy," she wanted to come forward and join the other women speaking out with her experiences with the then-presidential candidate. But she alleges that after his campaign became aware of her intention to publicly disclose her encounters with Trump, they aggressively "sought to silence" her.
Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who she refers to as the "fixer," prepared a nondisclosure agreement for her to sign.
She states in her lawsuit that she was paid through a company called Essential Consultants LLC that she believes Cohen created for one purpose: "to hide the true source of funds to be used to pay Ms. Clifford" to further insulate Trump for scrutiny.
Daniels claims she signed the "hush agreement" under an alias created for her in the document, "Peggy Peterson," as did Cohen, but the spots for Trump's signature under his "David Dennison" alias were left blank.
According to her lawsuit, $130,00 was wired to her trust account, and that after Trump became president, she was pressured to sign a false statement to state that reports of her relationship with Trump were untrue.
Cohen’s has acknowledged that he facilitated a $130,000 payment for Daniels, but has declined to elaborate on the circumstances, saying only that he used his "own personal funds" and it was a "private transaction."
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